Do you think itʼs the need for content warnings, so people donʼt bother in case they get reported? This place was so much more a free-for-all when I joined in 2017, but when the Twitter people came, many brought this holier-than-thou attitude of what could and could not be said. So everyone started policing themselves. What seemed to get a pass was the pro-fediverse content.
Maybe itʼs my rose-coloured glasses, but it was way more tolerant before.